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Hi folks !
I am Martijn, 31 years young, and live in the Netherlands.
I'm a carpainter and in my spare time I restore classic cars.
My daily driver is a 1994 Silverado Suburban, with 22" chrome wheels.
Since a while I'm in love with your hotrods, streetrods, mopars and muscle cars. Over here it's almost impossible to own a nice classic usa car. They are very expensive here. So now I'm looking for one to import.
Guys, sorry for my bad english !
If you have any questions, just shoot..
Greetings Martijn!
Welcome to the zoo! If you need any info on classic cars that are made to go zoooom, you came to the right spot:cool:
Good luck on your search for an import, any thoughts on what type of rig you are looking for?
Well, I like a lot of cars. I'm not looking for one brand or model, just looking what's in my budget.
It should be a daily driver with minor work. Prefer to new or rebuilt engine/trans. I like the anthiques from 1940-1960. But those are more showcars than daily drivers..
So I think it will be a '60 Nova, Chevelle, Camaro.. Dodge Dart,charger, challenger, Plymouth duster, barracuda.. Or a panelvan from the fifties.
Or.. or.. I don't know, just what I can find with lots of hp and within budget :D
Welcome to CHR Dutchy, good to have you here... Good luck with your search, have you checked the for sale ads on here?
Welcome, you'll find great info here.
Offcourse I checked the for sale ads. First thing I did :3dSMILE:
Haven't look at all of them yet. I like the first car I saw for sale here. The red thunderbird. But allready saw some more cars wich I like, but most of the sellers don't reply when I sent a message for info and pics.
Probably because they don't want to sell their car to Europe. From all messages sent sofar, I only got one reply. He asked me for my email te sent pics, but never got them..
I love the 32 blown roadster, but such cars are just for show over here.For a daily driver it should have a roof and sidewindows. We have more rain then sunshine. Also it should have fenders, elsewise you're not allowed to cruise the streets. Besides it's not in my budget.. But damn what a great car !
My max. budget is $10000. So if one of you wants to sell his car let me know !
Dutch hardstyle rules Dutchy.
Welcome and njoy!
jumper favoriet van mij van Zoertermeer
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Originally Posted by Dutchy
There are millions of kids in American public school's that can only aspire to your English,...
Welcome aboard.
Thanks !Quote:
There are millions of kids in American public school's that can only aspire to your English,...
We get english at school, so I can make myself clear but sometimes I just can't say what I wanna say because I don't know the exact words. Or I can say the word but can't spell it. And especialy technical english..
So in that case I try to tell the same but in other words. Most of the time you will understand what I'm saying, but I guess it has a lot of spelling faults.
I guess I just have to spent a lot of time at clubhotrod.. read a lot, post a lot and my english will soon be better :LOL:
I know Jumper as a petstore. Or do you mean something else ?Quote:
Originally Posted by t0oL
And how's it possible you speak dutch ?
Stumbled on jumping about a year ago- COOL hardstyle music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhQo...eature=related
translations from : http://translate.google.com/#
Anyway discotheques/clubs there gotta ROCK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnMc...eature=related
Ooohw, jumping or jumpstyle. That was ages ago :LOL: Long time since I heard some jumping music. But great music it is !
you are planning on coming to the USA purchase in person ?
wow. Maybe restrict your search to eastern USA big city you can arrive at by airport
or close by to cut down on your travel and shipping costs.
maybe look around from there for ideas, then come in person to check out and arrange for shipping. Beware of scams via internet. Reputable dealers you could trust from far away will be a little more expensive but save you travel costs.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/cta/
http://newyork.craigslist.org/cta/
http://miami.craigslist.org/cta/
jumping > ages ago- awwwwwwwww.
the non-hardstyle must have killed it,
great music > YES
respect for all things Dutch
good luck
:D No I won't come to purchase the car. I contacted a transport company over here in Rotterdam harbor, and if I find a car I like, he can sent one of his usa agents to check / pay / ship the car.
But thanks for the info !
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Originally Posted by Dutchy
That's a frightening idea!!
If you can afford it time and money, I really have to suggest that you make a trip to the US to do your car search. There are a lot of disreputable people selling the type of car you posted above. A transport company agent would have to be a special kind of car nut not to be cheated. What you could do is when most of Europe goes on holiday in July/August, make a trip here to one of the NSRA or Goodguys big car shows. KLM/Northwest fly into Detroit and Minneapolis daily from Schipol. While it's a fairly long trip anywhere in the US from there, it might end up being the best and in the end, the cheapest way.
As far as your English, it's fine and we'll help you with the technical stuff. What I've learned from business associates and my travel in the Netherlands is that almost all there speak Dutch and English as well as a "foreign" language:LOL::LOL:
Welcome to CHR. Just the other day a nice Challenger was up for sale, but maybe a little high for the budget mentioned!
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Originally Posted by IC2
If I fly to the USA and don't find 'my' car it's sin of the money. I don't have the money to buy me a ticket. If I do, my budget reduces. I saved a long time to get me the budget I have right now. I'm not rich and we still have economical crisis over here..
Besides, my girlfriend is pregnant of our first child and is callculated to give birth at the end of August :D
I just hope to have some luck with the purchase. And the agent is specialiced in cars so I hope he will notice if he will be cheated.
And I already met some divorced wifes selling their husbands car, or live abroad and the car is at their friends place, or only can be shipped by escrow company and I also already met sellers who for example painted engine to look good on pics (with overspray on hoses etc) :mad:
There are a lot unreliable sellers around..
But I mostly search at forums / clubs and cardealers. Hoping that there will be more fair fellows..
If you guys know some websites like oldride.com / classiccars.com / autotraderclassics.com or other websites where I can search for hotrods and custom classics please let me know !
About the languages.. English is required for all of us at school. Because english is a world language. Besides english we may choose one or more forein languages. I picked german and french.
I can speak and write german very well (also grandma was from germany), but can't make a correct sentence in french.. But school was a long timeago.
The refugees and applicants who come from Africa and Arabie to the Netherlands all learn english instead of dutch ! Something very annoying..
And we get a lot of them :mad:
If you have for example a shop in Amsterdam you have to speak english very well because half of the customers do..
I like the Challenger, but a neat one is much too expensive for me.Quote:
Yesterday 10:34 AM
stovens Welcome to CHR. Just the other day a nice Challenger was up for sale, but maybe a little high for the budget mentioned!
Now raised my budget to 12K. Bits by bits it will increase..